Add MS 45498

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Certificate of election as Tribuno Superiore in the Legione Calabro- Meridionale of the Falange Sacra issued to citizen Eugenio Panizza; May, 1865. Ital. Signed, and partly written, by Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian statesman. Endorsed with an instruction by the Comitato Centrale Segreto of the Falange Sacra, Naples. f. 1. Presented by Frank Cantalamessa, Esq., grandson of the recipient. B. Certificate of domicile issued by the municipal officers, etc., of the Commune of Cherbourg to members of the Lucas family; 4 Aug. 1793. French. Signed. f. 4. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. C. Letter from William Butler Yeats to Charles Christopher Bell of Epworth, rel. to textual variants in his poems; 3 Mar. 1900. f. 6. Presented, in 1931, by Harold Idris Bell (knt. 1946), son of the recipient. D. Letter from Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay), novelist, to - Marks, thanking him for his courtesy, in contrast to the abuse of others; 3 Oct. 1892. f. 9. Presented by Percy L. Marks, Esq. E. Letter from Herman Melville, American author, to -, regretting his inability to keep an appointment; 27 Nov. 1857. Printed in Notes and Queries, clxxvi, 1939, p. 60. f. 12. Presented by Dr T. 0. Mabbott. F. Miscellaneous original letters, etc., including:-(1) Seven letters from the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, bibliographer, to Samuel Lahee, auctioneer, of New Bond St, on business matters; 1829, n.d. ff. 13-27b;-(2) Four letters from Joseph Planta, Principal Librarian of the British Museum to Trustees of the Museum and others, on official and learned matters; 1816- 1825, n.d. ff. 29-33;-(3) Letter from Joseph Planta, junior, of the Foreign Office, son of the preceding, to Mrs Elizabeth Barnett, sister of Stratford Canning, announcing the news of the treaty of Bucharest; 14 Aug. 1812. Re-used by the recipient for a letter to her brother Henry Canning; 15 Aug. 1812. f. 34;-(4) Two letters from Sir Home Riggs Popham, Rear-Adm. 1814, to Dennis O'Bryen, complaining of his treatment at the hands of Lord Mulgrave; 4, 5 Dec. 1808. ff. 37-40. Presented by Warren R. Dawson, Esq. G. Letters to Sir Frederic George Kenyon, Director of the British Museum, from:-(1) Achille Ratti, Prefect of the Vatican Library, elected Pope Pius XI 1922, accepting a place on the advisory committee of the New Palaeographical Society; 20 Mar. 1916. Fr. f. 41;-(2) Cardinal Francis Neil (in religion, Aidan) Gasquet, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, conveying to the New Palaeographical Society the thanks of Pope Pius XI for its congratulations upon his election as Pope; 27 Feb. 1922. f. 42. ff. 41-42. Presented by the recipient. H. Letter from John Meade Falkner, Librarian of Durham Cathedral, to John Alexander Herbert of the British Museum, on the election of Pope Pius XI and other matters; Rome, 18 Jan. 1922. Typewritten and initialled. ff. 43-47. Presented by the recipient. I. Two letters from William Henry Hudson, naturalist, to Harold Idris Bell, knt. 1946, of the British Museum, mainly on the subject of nightingales in Wales; 11, 22 Oct. 1913. ff. 48-54. Presented by the recipient. K. Accompt of disbursements 'for the use of the Schools' at the depôt for British prisoners of war at Saarlouis, in France; 31 Dec. 1806-31 Jan. 1807. For other accompts from the depôt, see Add. MS. 42717. f. 55. Presented, through the British Records Association, by Sidney Hodgson, Esq. L. Envelope of a despatch from the Prussian Foreign Office addressed 'An des Königs Majestät', i.e. to William, afterw. 1st German Emperor, and redirected by him to Bismarck by altering 'An' to 'Von' and adding 'an den Minister-Präsident'. Said, in an attached cutting, to have been delivered to the King by Baumann of the Kurhaus at Ems, a few days before the outbreak of war with France, i.e. in July 1870. Seal of the Prussian Foreign Office, oversealed by the King. f. 56. Presented by the Librarian of Cheltenham Public Library. M. Forged autograph letter of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., addressed to 'Dr John Walker, Queen St, Edinburgh'; dated 'Abbotsford, 20 July 1816'. Perhaps the work of Alexander Howland ('Antique') Smith, for whom see W. Roughead, The Riddle of the Ruthvens and other Studies, 2nd edition, 1936, pp. 122-143, and G. S. Inglis, 'Burns and Scott Forgeries', Journal of the Society of Archivists and Autograph Collectors, no. 3, 1897, pp. 1-5. Cf. also Add. MSS. 43787, 43798 C. A cancelled stamp of the National Library of Scotland is on f. 59b. ff. 58-59. Presented anonymously. N. Certified copy (1936) by S. J. Madge, D.Sc., F.S.A., of a letter from the Bishop of London to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (P.R.O., Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence Vol. 30, no. 143), concerning subsidies; 28 Sept. 1296. Lat. Printed in translation by S. J. Madge, The Mediaeval Records of Harringay alias Hornsey, 1939, pp. 83-84. ff. 60-61. Presented by the transcriber. 0. Miscellaneous letters to Mrs Hannah Florence Dryhurst from:-(1) Frank Robert Benson, actor, (knt. 1916); n.d. f. 65;-(2) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; 10 June 1912. f. 67;-(3) Edward Granville Browne, Persian scholar; 25 Sept. 1924. ff. 68-69;-(4) Lajpat Rai, Indian nationalist; n.d. ff. 70-71; -(5) Peter Alexeyevitch Kropotkin; 14 Feb. 1897, 21 Feb. 1898. ff. 72-75;-

(6) Sergius Stepniak al. Sergius Mikhailovitch Kravtchinsky; 26 Feb. 1890, 13 Nov. 1891. ff. 76-78. Some further letters to Mrs Dryhurst and the donor are now Add. MSS. 45680R, 46172X. Presented by A. R. Dryhurst, Esq., I.S.O., husband of the recipient. P. Miscellaneous historical papers; 1603-1621. As follows:-(1) Confirmation by James I of Elizabeth I's permission to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey of the use and rule of the Reformed Churches of the Duchy of Normandy; Hampton Court, 8 Aug. 1603. Contemporary copy. f. 81;-

(2) Six letters, with a few enclosures, from Oliver St John, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1st Viscount Grandison 1621, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 1623; 11 Jan. 1616/7-9 Dec. 1921. Signed. ff. 82-96. Presented anonymously. Q. Four letters from Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D., to the Rev. William Edward Dickson, Precentor of Ely Cathedral, mainly rel. to a plan to devote the remainder of his life to the composition of cathedral music; Winchester, 29 July 1860-25 Oct. 1862. ff. 99-110. Presented by Capt. A. J. Lord, D.S.O. R. Letter from Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Bart., self-styled Baron Chandos of Sudeley, to the Rev. John Humphrey St Aubyn, including transcripts of nine sonnets of his own composition; 10-11 April 1835. ff. 111-112. Presented anonymously. S. Letter from William Dean Howells, American author, to Major George Haven Putnam, publisher, rel. to a book for review; 7 Feb. 1915. ff. 113-114. Presented by Professor T. 0. Mabbott. T. (1) Letter from John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1908, to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, advising him to republish in book form a series of articles written for the Fortnightly Review; 14 Jan. 1882. ff. 115-116;-

(2) Affidavit by Morley, including a reference to (1), of the circumstances that led to his resignation from the Fortnightly Review; 1882. Draft, with counsel's alterations. ff. 118-124. Presented by H. J. Darby, Esq. U. Papers rel. to the proposal to erect a monument to John Howard, philanthropist, including (ff. 125-126) a letter of objection from him to Christopher Willoughby, 1st Bart. 1794; 1786-1787, n.d. Partly printed. For other papers dealing with the Howard memorial, see Add. MS. 26055. ff. 125-132. Presented by the British Records Association. V. Letters to Philip Bliss, D.C.L., Registrar of Oxford University, from or concerning Thomas Grenville and the bequest of the Grenville Library to the British Museum; 1842-1847. Other letters from Grenville to Bliss are in Add. MSS. 34568-34576, passim. For letters from Grenville to the Duke of Buckingham rel. to this bequest see also Add. MS. 47458 A. ff. 133-146b. Transferred from the British Museum (Natural History), through Dr C. D. Sherborn. W. Letter from Gyles Isham, 12th Bart. 1941, to Robin Ernest William Flower, of the British Museum, relating to a letter at Lamport Hall from Robert Townson, Dean of Westminster, to Sir John Isham, 1st Bart. 1627, describing the death of Sir Walter Raleigh; 15 Oct. 193o. A facsimile of Townson's letter is in MS. Facs. Suppl. IV (aa). ff. 147-151. X. Letter from Henry Havelock Ellis to -, in reply to a request for advice; 23 Aug. 1938. f. 152. Presented anonymously. Paper; ff. 152. Folio.